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Strategy First Games

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Software publisher Strategy First, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSTR), was founded by friends who shared a mutual passion for videogames. They still work closely together today, and are the driving force behind the company that is now a leading worldwide developer and publisher of entertainment software.

Their dream began in 1990 when the company received its first art and graphic design contract for a strategy role-playing game published by Sir Tech. For the following two years, it continued to fulfill contracts for such leading companies as ABC Sports Interactive, Strategic Simulations, Empire Interactive, LucasArts and Cinar Films. Soon after, Strategy First developed its own sports game entitled Solid Ice and began to make a name for itself as a premier developer in the Industry, releasing such titles as Man of War I and II and Disciples: Sacred Lands.

Since that time, the company has continued to grow rapidly and has expanded from a small team of a dozen employees to a team with over 40 talented programmers, artists and marketing representatives spread over 2 offices in Montreal and London, England.

Strategy First continues to build its profile as a unique alternative for up-and-coming developers seeking to market their games to a worldwide audience. Examples of some of the titles that Strategy First has brought to the market are Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Europa Universalis II, Sudden Strike, Hearts of Iron, Cossacks and Galactic Civilizations.

In addition to publishing third party titles, Strategy First’s very own development studios continue to break new ground with titles such as Disciples II: Dark Prophecy, O.R.B. and Nexagon: Deathmatch.

Strategy First is definitely a company to keep your eyes on. The future is bright!

  • MAKING HISTORY: The Calm and The Storm is a true grand strategy game that puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. The game is unique among World War II games in the way it challenges gamers to achieve economic and diplomatic victory, not just military success.
  • GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition is a blend of adventure and action in a turn-based setting. There is an array of missions and NPCs that players can add to their team. Players must fight, gain experience, level and acquire new skills. The game is played out in the first-person perspective, until gamers enter a battle encounter, at which point the game goes into third-person turn-based battle.
  • Set in WWI, 1914 Shells Of Fury is the first WWI submarine simulation to be released. Players have command of their very own WWI Submarine from the German Emperor’s fleet. Prepare to participate in exciting underwater missions from WWI, and work out detailed strategies using powerful weapons. Take command and control of the various missions given, while roaming across the ocean. Players must use tactical skills in order to survive and move ahead of the opponent.
  • S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined arms naval strategies from a top-down “Commanders Eye” perspective.
  • Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy. New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely “moddable” and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix. Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the genre of space strategy.
  • GREAT INVASIONS™ plunges you back into the dark age of Europe, a time in history where barbarian tribes and nation states quarreled, warred and conquered each other as the fate of the western world unfolded. Great Invasions allows you to lead armies in the epic conquest of Europe! By force or diplomacy dominance must be established!
  • Alien Shooter Vengeance is the large-scale sequel to the first part of Alien Shooter. In this unique fusion of arcade action and RPG elements, the carnage continues with non-stop fury!
  • Legion Arena is a role playing strategy game created on a massive scale, providing gamers with more than just the pure taste of battle. Set during the period of the Roman Republic, players take command of a band of simple peasant warriors and train them into a formidable fighting force.
  • Baseball Mogul 2009 puts you in complete control of any professional baseball team - the baseball game for fans who want their success on the field determined by their strategy, not their reflexes. Never before seen interview featuring one of Baseball’s most out spoken, talented, and controversial pitchers of all time. Close to 90 minutes, covering the game’s past, present and future.

Dangerous Waters

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Dangerous Waters,

S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined arms naval strategies from a top-down “Commanders Eye” perspective.

Cooperative and head-to-head multiplayer modes allow controllable submarine, surface, and air platforms to battle it out in the definitive naval combat experience.

Players can command a platform on their own in multiplayer, or collaborate with multiple players in “Multi-station Mode” as they each operate individual crew-stations and strive to work together as a team on the SAME platform.

By assigning certain crew stations to be manned by the “virtual crewmen” the player can hand off various functions for the simulation to manage. This allows the player to tailor the game’s difficulty level to their liking and the precise level of involvement and micro management that they wish. The player could choose to monitor every single crew station himself or choose to just command the platform and to let the A.I. do the rest. Autocrew control is dynamic so the player can enable or disable this feature for every crew station modeled in the game.

Detailed depictions of each controllable units crew-stations and their respective arsenals provide a realistic game play experience. Over 270 meticulously researched and modeled surface, submarine and air units.

Authentic simulation of sensor performance both in the air and through the ocean environment challenge the player to detect unknown enemies. Realistic depiction of flight characteristic, buoyancy, air resistance, and gravity provide realistic control and maneuvering.

Updated 3D graphics engine provides realistic depiction of ocean swells, water reflections, and environmental conditions using the latest vertex and pixel shader technologies.

Extensive worldwide database provided by the U.S. Naval Institute offers detailed descriptions of platforms and weaponry to accommodate all possible global conflicts. Over 270 surface, submarine and air units comprising 17 of the world’s navies can do battle for control of the open ocean.

Powerful mission editor used by the developers to create the missions that will be shipped with the game, will also be available to the player to create their own scenarios. Players will be able to create their own single missions, multiplayer missions or to string together their own campaigns. These tools will allow the player extensive control over the mission content and enable him to generate an infinite number of scenario possibilities.

Players will compete in campaigns in which their actions have a profound effect on the missions that follow. The use of dynamic elements such as probability of inclusion, dynamic groups of objects, dynamic inclusion of mission goals, and rules of engagement (that can change mid-mission) all ensure that the campaigns with never play the same way twice.

Upon selecting their platform and mission difficulty level the player will be provided with an entirely random and dynamic scenario. It will be composed of an infinite combination of mission goals, enemy forces and random locations.

Features:

  • One naval battlefield.
  • Multi-station mode.
  • Innovative “autocrew” artificial intelligence.
  • “Real world” naval units.
  • Cutting-edge sensor modelling and physics.
  • Scalable 3d engine and effects.
  • Worldwide database.
  • Mission creation tools used by the game’s designers.
  • Dynamic yet persistent campaigns.
  • Quick mission mode.

Dangerous Waters

Great Invasions

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Great Invasions,

GREAT INVASIONS™ plunges you back into the dark age of Europe, a time in history where barbarian tribes and nation states quarreled, warred and conquered each other as the fate of the western world unfolded.

Great Invasions allows you to lead armies in the epic conquest of Europe! By force or diplomacy dominance must be established!

Live the greatest moments of the times! This historically accurate recreation allows you to encounter over 150 nations / tribes, more than 30 religions and heresies, as well as thousands of historical characters drawn from the pages of world’s richest historical sources.

Great Invasions is an extremely elaborate real-time strategy game covering over 700 years of history. Put your leadership and visionary skills to the test and drive your population to the dawn of the Middle Ages!

Great Invasions puts you in command of one or more of Europe’s nations between 375 and 1066… you decide their path… and their fate!

Features:

  • Great Invasions is based on pure historical facts designed in collaboration with historians and includes 150 historical events and over 3700 key figures of this period.
  • Manage the finances, diplomatic, religious and military needs of a nation.
  • Apart from managing the conflicts between borders, you must control population migrations, heresies and confront the fall of kingdoms and empires facing barbarian attacks.
  • Manage up to 10 populations simultaneously, selecting them via a bidding system with over 80 difference nations.
  • Multiplayer mode supporting up to 4 players via LAN or Internet.

Great Invasions

1914 Shells Of Fury

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1914 Shells Of Fury,

Set in WWI, 1914 Shells Of Fury is the first WWI submarine simulation to be released. Players have command of their very own WWI Submarine from the German Emperor’s fleet. Prepare to participate in exciting underwater missions from WWI, and work out detailed strategies using powerful weapons. Take command and control of the various missions given, while roaming across the ocean. Players must use tactical skills in order to survive and move ahead of the opponent.

Features:

  • First Submarine simulation of World War I.
  • Detailed models of Submarines, Warships, Merchant Ships and Airplanes.
  • Four different German Submarine boats to choose from: Armada-Petrolboat, Armada-Dieselboat, UB-I and UC-II.
  • Over 50 individual missions with accurate historical background.
  • Campaign-mode from 1914 to 1918.
  • Mission-generator.
  • Adjustable levels of difficulty.
  • Realistic Submarine Stations.

1914 Shells Of Fury

Space Empires 5

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Space Empires 5,

Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.

New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely “moddable” and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix.

Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the genre of space strategy.

Features:

  • 24 bit 3D real-time rendered graphics.
  • Detailed Tactical Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
  • New vehicle types and sizes: Ships, Bases, Freighters, Fighters, Mines, Satellites, Troops, Drones, and Weapons Platforms.
  • Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
  • Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
  • Huge Technology Tree: Thousands of tech levels with hundreds of components and facilities.
  • Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles, etc.
  • Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech.
  • 14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
  • Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
  • Complete game customization allowed by players (“mods”).

Space Empires 5

Legion Arena

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Legion Arena,

Legion Arena is a role playing strategy game created on a massive scale, providing gamers with more than just the pure taste of battle. Set during the period of the Roman Republic, players take command of a band of simple peasant warriors and train them into a formidable fighting force.

With each victorious battle, gamers can reap the rewards of fame, money and experience along with the opportunity to ‘level up’ their units. Troops will learn hundreds of new talents through their field experience, and will progressively upgrade their skills with each new combat they face.

Gamers can play as the Roman Empire and Celtic Clans through over a hundred scenarios and must use calculated strategies in an attempt to crush their Roman enemies on the front line -

Fighting for the pride and glory of the battlefield!

Features:

  • Gamers recruit and train their troops.
  • Buy equipment and choose their skills. Over 100 skills to choose from!
  • Personalize the appearance of each squad by selecting their textures.
  • Command vast armies in epic 3-D battles.
  • Earn experience and denari for every victory.
  • Choice of two campaign paths - play as Romans or Gauls. Get drawn into the story of the rise of Rome.
  • Over 100 scenarios.
  • Over 20 unique unit types including Legionaires, Praetorians, Elephants, and Naked Fanatics.
  • Special effects including water, particles, lighting & night battles, weather and grass.
  • Detailed combat model design by twice world wargaming champion, Iain McNeil.
  • Deploy troops and issue orders before battle.
  • Real time control in battle using Slitherine’s innovative order time system.
  • Every unit has strengths and weaknesses. Gamers learn how to use their strengths and exploit their enemies’ weaknesses.
  • Real terrain effects - cavalry are weaker in woods, light infantry are weaker in the open.
  • Easy to learn, hard to master.
  • Two-Player head-to-head mode over LAN & Internet.

Legion Arena

GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition

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GODS Lands Of Infinity,

GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition is a blend of adventure and action in a turn-based setting. There is an array of missions and NPCs that players can add to their team. Players must fight, gain experience, level and acquire new skills. The game is played out in the first-person perspective, until gamers enter a battle encounter, at which point the game goes into third-person turn-based battle.

The ancient world of Bellarion struggled in the never ending war of Gods. The conflict began when Xarax, ruler of the Gods, was murdered. Each of the remaining Gods claimed the right to the Divine Throne. After many battles, the defeated Gods refused to submit to the victors and instead summoned their armies to attack the worshippers of other Gods. The deaths of those worshippers weakened the power of the conquering Gods. After 2000 years of battles, Bellarion lay in ruins. No one was able to achieve victory until the God of Darkness, Mortagon, found a new weapon which resisted all magic and divine powers.

As the last hope Arswaargh, the God of Fire, created Vivien, who he fashioned after his own astral body. Arswaargh sent Vivien through space and time to seek the counter-weapon needed to defy Mortagorn, but unfortunately, she lost her divine essence while traveling through the magical portal to another world. Vivien must now seek the Gods of the new world, gain back her power and search for the counter-weapon against Mortagorn.

GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition invites you into an exciting world full of adventures, battles and quests of unearthly affairs. Spend hours discovering the world of Antasion, trading and completing the lead quests of each race or kingdom and many side quests.

GODS Lands Of Infinity

Alien Shooter - Vengeance

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Alien Shooter 2,

Alien Shooter Vengeance is the large-scale sequel to the first part of Alien Shooter. In this unique fusion of arcade action and RPG elements, the carnage continues with non-stop fury! Battle hordes of Aliens that are pouring through the teleports and threatening to escape the top secret M.A.G.M.A. base. With more than 50 types of weapons at your disposal, you will be fighting up 100 monsters simultaneously on screen. Wipe out the enemy with 3 different game modes: Campaign, Survival, and Multiplayer. You are the last hope in keeping this threat from invading the earth!

Features:

  • dynamic shadows and lighting,
  • about 10 000 monsters on each map, showing up to 100 monsters simultaneously onscreen,
  • natural phenomena (fog, rain, water),
  • NPC characters,
  • more than 50 types of weapons,
  • more than 20 types of useful gadgets,
  • 3 game modes: Campaign, Survival and Multiplayer,
  • dynamic music soundtrack and effects,
  • natural phenomena (fog, rain, water),

Alien Shooter 2

Enemy Engaged 2

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Enemy Engaged 2,

Climb aboard an American RAH-66 Comanche, or the Russian KA-52 Hokum B, and prepare to experience low-level helicopter combat like never before! Sharpen your “line of sight” tactics on over 30,000 kilometers of treacherous landscape! War rages continuously on 3 diverse real world combat zones, where you engage the enemy as both pilot and co-pilot/gunner.

Not only do you feel the white knuckle tension of the realistic flight dynamics, the immersive voice control allows you to command your gunner and your wingman from a microphone connected to your PC. To increase the realism, you may also play co-operatively or competitively with other players, up to 16 on LAN or online Multiplayer.

Features:

  • Modern helicopter combat simulation with realistic flight physics.
  • Three exciting theaters of war with two opposing campaigns each.
  • Dynamic real-time battlefields. No linear mission plot or predefined unit behavior.
  • Over 300.000 square kilometers of flying area over Lebanon, Taiwan and Korea.
  • Diverse combat environments executed in lush 3D detail under a wide range of weather conditions.
  • Over 1200 very detailed and blue-print precise vehicles, chosen from among proven classics in actual use in armed forces around the globe.
  • Use immersive voice control to command your gunner and wingman.
  • 16 players over LAN or Internet.

Enemy Engaged 2

Bill Spaceman Lee’s Baseball Mogul 2008

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Bill Spaceman Lee’s Baseball Mogul 2008,

Baseball Mogul 2008 is the 10th edition of the award-winning game that puts you in complete control of any professional baseball team - the baseball game for fans who want their success on the field determined by their strategy, not their reflexes. Never before seen interview featuring one of Baseball’s most out spoken, talented, and controversial pitchers of all time. Close to 90 minutes, covering the game’s past, present and future.

Baseball Mogul begins on Opening Day of any year you choose, from 1901 to 2007. As General Manager (GM), you control a 25-man major league roster plus up to 100 additional minor league players.

You can make complex player trades and negotiate multi-year contracts as you build your team, but you’ll have to compete with the other GMs and manage the bottom line.

Your involvement as GM does not stop in the team’s front office - you also help to manage your team on the field. You set the starting defense, batting order and pitching rotation for your team. Of course, once a ballgame starts, you retire to the luxury box and its up to your team’s coaches and players to get the win! A powerful game engine simulates every pitch of the game based on thousands of customized ratings and projections, assuring you the maximum realism possible!

Details on the Bill Lee DVD

Never before seen interview featuring one of Baseball’s most out spoken, talented, and controversial pitchers of all time. Close to 90 minutes, covering the game’s past, present and future.

Bill Lee offers insight on some of the games most historic, successful and failed General Managers. Follow the “Spaceman” as he also talks about his career, his triumphs challenges, and his life on and off the diamond.

Features:

  • Baseball Mogul Encyclopedia,
  • Database Engine,
  • Financial Model,
  • Player Development Engine,
  • Physics-Based Simulation,
  • “Save Anytime” Feature,
  • Ticker Tape,
  • Expanded Scouting Reports,
  • 2007 Rosters,
  • Roster Tools,
  • Player Database,
  • Pitcher Database,
  • Animated Play-By-Play,
  • Pitch-By-Pitch Mode,
  • Lefty-Righty Stats,
  • Fast Simulation Speed,

Strategy First,